With a little patience and some work, it appears that iPhone 5 owners may be able to trim a Micro SIM down enough to potentially fit inside the iPhone 5’s Nano Sim slot. One of the biggest questions ...

Conflict is brewing in the mobile world over the adoption of a new, smaller standard for the SIM card — the chip in each GSM phone that dictates which network you connect to and your cellphone number.

SIM card format developer Giesecke & Devrient is proposing new specifications for a new SIM format called the nano-SIM, which will be 30 percent smaller than today’s micro-SIM and 60 percent smaller ...

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3FF stands for 3rd Form Factor. A SIM card that is physically smaller than a traditional (2FF) SIM, but larger than a nano-SIM (4FF). See: SIM The electric contacts and circuitry of a micro-SIM are ...

The SIM cards that fit into those tiny slots in your cell phone and tell your cellular network to whom your calls are to be charged come in four different sizes. With the only real difference between ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Verge has obtained detailed information on the so-called “nano-SIM” proposals from Apple, Nokia, and RIM. The ...

The company has reportedly sent a letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute offering to hand over its nano-SIM technology at no cost. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology ...

After getting its nano-SIM (4FF) proposal approved by the ETSI earlier this year, Apple’s new technology was always going to make its debut in the sixth-generation iPhone. And in case you needed proof ...